Rolf OldejansA bus stop in Trzebież, Poland kept getting destroyed by vandals.
Local mayor installed a punching bag next to it.
Vandalism stopped completely.
Elric
Phil Dennis-Jordan@elricofmelnibone @rolf This is a double-edged sword. There are quite a few bus stops next to playgrounds and exercise stations in Seoul, South Korea, and I lost count of the number of buses we missed because we failed to corral the kids and ourselves back to the stop in time when the bus did come.
clew“You can always catch the next bus”, a sign in the window of a used bookstore at a bus stop
Also they posted the schedule, pre-smartphones, very helpful
Fabian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯@clew @pmdj @elricofmelnibone @rolf "Also they posted the schedule, pre-smartphones, very helpful"
Is this not standard? Here in Austria *every* public transport stop has physical timetables which show the schedule + how long it takes to all the stations on the line.
Our system tries — a small picture-frame affixed to each bus stop pole, with the relevant timetable in it. Trying to remember why storefronts also posted them!
The poles do get vandalized, and the timetables are in small type and not always easy to read by streetlight. ??
Embarrassing: the realtime-updates phone app is so good that I can’t remember if my nearest bus poles have paper schedules.